Joan Benoit

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Joan Benoit (2008)

Joan Benoit (for Marriage Joan Samuelson ; * 16th May 1957 in Cape Elizabeth , Maine ) is an American long-distance runner and the first Olympic champion in the marathon .

biography

Benoit started running while recovering from a broken leg while skiing. In 1979 she won the Boston Marathon as a completely unknown at the time and improved the course record by more than seven minutes to 2:35:16. Although she injured her Achilles tendon in 1981 and had to undergo an operation, she won again in Boston in 1983 and ran the third fastest time on this route with 2:22:43. A year later she set a world record in the half marathon with 1:08:34, which lasted over four years and was only broken as a US record 21 years later by Deena Kastor .

In the US qualifications for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , she prevailed, although she had only undergone an arthroscopy of the knee 17 days earlier . In the first Olympic marathon for women, she pulled away from the rest of the field after a quarter of an hour and ran a lead of 1:26 minutes ahead of Grete Waitz to the finish . In 1985, as the winner of the Chicago Marathon , she set a US record of 2:21:21 that was to last for 17 years, and in 1986 the current US record in the 25 km road race (1:24:43). After that, injuries prevented them from reaching their full potential.

Your training recommendations, which are explained in detail on the Internet, include daily training (10–16 km), long runs (at least 32 km each), hill training and strength training. There is nothing in the recommendations that should be considered gender specific. It's the typical American long-distance training that is roughly equivalent to that of Bill Bowerman .

After retiring from competitive sports, she wrote several books ( Running Tide , Running for Women ) and opened a clinic. She is also a long-distance runner trainer and often appears on television as a sports commentator. In 2004 she was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the USA Track & Field Association.

In 2006, she acted as a pacemaker for Lance Armstrong when he started the New York Marathon . In 2009 she is back at the start of the New York Marathon.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ USA Record Progressions - Road on arrs.run
  2. ↑ http://www.all-about-marathon-training.com/ auf. February 10, 2017
  3. ↑ Arnd Krüger : Many roads lead to Olympia. The changes in the training systems for middle and long distance runners (1850-1997) , in: N. Gissel (Hrsg.): Sportliche Leistungs im Wandel. Hamburg 1998: Czwalina, pp. 41-56.
  4. ^ Joan Samuelson , USATF website
personal data
SURNAME Benoit, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Samuelson, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American marathon runner
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Cape Elizabeth , Maine